I'm preparing to take the plunge into a cflow/rrd/flowscan
implementation and I'm looking to streamline the process as much as
possible….
I've built a box for it: dual proc 1.2Ghz, scsi HD, 1G ram, and I've
loaded FreeBSD 4.5. And, now that I'm looking at the versions and the
binary distributions, I'm unsure about my OS choice. This box is really
for DoS detection/mitigation experimentation, but I want a solid
back-end in order to limit the confounded variables when I begin to hack
at it.

I've read through the archives and found some reference but mostly just
individual compiling mem-leak problems on specific systems.

Could someone, multiple people, make a case for on OS? Personal
expeience, yada yada.